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Well, let's start then... I hope you like it only half as much as I do

Nezumi Atama - The Crossover Crisis Special by Onuzim Ima

The story: Criminal Mercenaries recklessly breach the barriers between different Universes so they can exploit them all. It takes the combined efforts of the Nezumi A. Team, the Sailor Senshi, the Miraculous Teens and several others to stop them... As it's not specified from which versions of their worlds the guest characters come, I allow myself some minor artistic freedom regarding the details on their costumes, their abilities and personalities. Contains spoilers for the main series. Also has Continuity Nods and popcultural references. Lots of. The interactions between Mercury and the Main Chara are especially cute. ♥ For example, they're frequently mistaken for a couple, mostly because they often act like some pair of odd twins. I ask the Ladybug fans to show some patience as the story's main focus lies on the OCs and the Senshi (Merc-chan in particular) and LB's introduction will be somewhere around the middle. As this series is set a few years into the Future ('Next Sunday, A. D.' type), the guest stars would all be a little older, making everybody around the same ages.

The Characters:

Rob Anderson - The shy, soft-spoken Alien Prince and Teen Genius. A hero for many, but hunted by self-doubt and a somewhat dark and troubled past. Today, he's going to make just another experience he'll probably never forget...

Will soon develop a secret, one-sided, unlucky and ill-fated crush on her Sovereign & Protege as well while at the same time revealing that she possesses near-identical powers, thus (unintentionally) 'breaking the rule' of 'only one for each generation' (Two if counting the evil twin brother as separate).

Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury - A humble, exceptionally smart, shy and beautiful Japanese child prodigy from a different Dimension. Transforms into a sailor-suited Super Heroine who uses water & ice magic. Today, her life might change forever...

"I want to be carried away... Someday, somewhere, by the wonderful person I know I’ll meet. I want to be carried away. I want to be called softly... 'Ami-chan'… Someday, somewhere... I want him to call me that."

Prologue & Chapter 01 - Let the games begin!

Almost silently, the strange and unknown vessel approached the atmosphere of an unimportant green and blue planet orbiting a mid-sized yellow sun. Nobody would have guessed what its goal would be back then. A hatch opened, releasing its devastating cargo which slided slowly towards the planet's surface...

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N. Y. City, U. S. A.
Earth No. ???

The mild sunlight of a beginning May morning comfortably struck the face of Rob Anderson the genius Teenager who used the early hour for a refreshing stroll through New York's Central Park. Almost nobody on this still developing pearl in space knew that he secretly also was a Super Hero in disguise and the Future ruler of a far-away planet which inhibited a species of small-built Humanoids with rodent features (i. e. the ears and noses), but he usually didn't look like that to anyone not taken into the secret.
He visibly enjoyed the leisure hours before duty might call once again. Or better, he could have, hadn't his 'spider sense' come in ringing just about now...
A loud noise penetrated his ears, followed by an earth-shattering impact which threw the perplexed boy off his feet. A few moments later, once he regained his composure, he looked up and saw what had made such a ruckus:
"WHAT FOR HAWKING'S SAKE IS THAT THING????", he shouted, completely overwhelmed by what hit the eye... A giant metallic object which's shape vaguely reminded of a Dreidel toy had thrusted itself into the ground. Curious as he was, he wanted to examine the thing when a circle of red lamps started blinking at the top. Bolts of lightning or electricity sparked off, and from there, it all became really weird...
Several meters away, the air began to fluctuate, and some kind of Anomaly formed before his widened and surprised eyes. He had to shield his vision a little from the brightness, but he could spot a bunch of probably female Silhouettes dressed in Sailor Fuku inspired clothing stepping out from that 'wall of light'.
One of them, a pigtailed Blonde, presumably the Leader, unleashed something what sounded like an accusing speech: "[...]Ai to Seigi no seeraa fuku bishoujo senshi, Seeraamuun!" - "Huh... Japanese?", Robbie thought. - "Tsuki ni Kawatte oshioki yo!" Pretty mesmerized, the boy got grip on his Smartphone and recorded a Voicemail, probably for his Allies: "F-folks? C-could you come over here, please? I think we have a problem..." (Insert Opening Credits here)
"Wait, wait wait, wait. Hold it for just a second. Timeout!", he blurted out while doing the corresponding gesture (NOTE: From here, the Translator Microbes are in function for the convenience of the reader/viewer except where otherwise stated or hinted at). Then, he switched to their language, half to mock and half for actually testing the girls: "Tell me, Ladies. Could it be you somewhere took a wrong turn on the way to the nearest Cosplay Event?" - "How dare you!", the tallest and strongest of the Quartet, Sailor Jupiter, barked. "We're the real deal! Our costumes are as genuine as these... talents of mine!" By that word, the brunette pony-tailed Valkyrie violently patted her own, rather enormous boobs. Now it's official: I hit my head, and I hit it hard this time. I must be dreaming. They aren't real, are they? They're fictous characters, at least in this - - - Rob didn't even dare to finish that thought, as the green-skirted Sailor Senshi wouldn't have let him anyway. "Have you been living under a rock? By now, everybody should know who we are in all of Shinjuku alone!" Wait, only four? Wasn't there one missing? - "Girls, I have the uncanny feeling that we're not in Shinjuku anymore.", the Senshi in a red skirt and high heels with long black hair, Sailor Mars, interrupted, only to look into unbelieving faces. - "You aren't.", Robbie assured her. "This is the 'Big Apple'." Eternal Sailormoon in her white and pink-dominated fuku with puffy sleeves and artificial wings attached to her back reacted to these last words and moaned: "Aaaaw, I'd really like to have such an Apple now, too. I'm soooo hungry!", followed by a stomach growl that just couldn't be overheard. - "Geez, Usagi-chan!", the other girls hissed. - "But it's true.", a thin voice which belonged to a fifth girl in navy blue boots and miniskirt, with light blue ribbons, baby blue eyes and short indigo blue hair confirmed. She was typing on some kind of Pocket Calculator thingy and wore a pair of strange transparent blue goggles which were somehow connected to it. "We really are in New York." - "WHAAAAAAAAT!?", the other girls shrieked in such a volume that it almost made her ears ring. - "To be precisely, this isn't even our own Earth!" - "WHAAAAAAAAAAT!?", the other four repeated, twice as loud as before. - "You mean... Another Dimension? A parallel Universe?", the orange-skirted ditzy Blonde Sailor Venus pondered. "Unbelieveable! Terrific! And also scary!" - "That would indeed explain some things. But if we really are in New York, then...", Mars said, then she got cut short when Sailor Moon tried to direct some words to the rarely speechless Robbie in her famously bad English: "Er, sorry, no English speaking... " - "Don't you realize that the guy's been talking to us in our language for some time now, you Meatball Head?", Sailor Mars scolded her. "Now, what's most important is just how did we get here in the first place?" - "Must probably have to do with that thing over there." Venus pointed at the strange bomb thing next to poor Rob. "Hey yo, 'that your work, you Monster? Yeah, I mean YOU!"
The blue girl, Sailor Mercury, approached the mildly sweating Accused which made him swallow. Well, he had read the Mangas, watched all the Episodes and collected all that Mercury Merchandise, and now he had a real, living, three-dimensional version made from flesh and blood directly under his nose, what, on another day, would've been quite flattering and the fulfilment of a Fanboy's long-lasting, secret wet dream, but with the current situation, under these circumstances, it made the alarm bells ring. There she stood, with a sour face, almost close enough that he could feel her breath on his face. A little too close for his personal comfort. She was checking on him and analyzing him from head to toe. Could she actually see through his Camouflage?

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Once she had finished her Analysis, she gave him a brief "Well?" and leapt into the air in a couple of flic-flacs which the Amazon Quartet would've been proud of and directly into battle stance while taking a good step back. Now sounding much more eager and determined than just moments ago, she asked: "Explain yourself! What kind of Demon or Youma are you? What are your evil plans? Stealing people's Life Energies? Pure Heart Crystals? Dream Mirrors? Starseeds?" - "Wha... None of all that!", the quite insulted Teenager tried to defend himself. "While it's true that I'm not originally from this world, as are my Abilities, I assure you that I'm one of the good guys!" - "Is that so?", Mercury snarked. - "You can just ask my friends once they reach here. Can take them a while, though, with the heavy traffic and so. Unfortunately, I haven't much of these around here. Friends, I mean." By that sentence, he looked down and sideways with a sad face. - "Aaaaw... Wah, boo-hoo.", Sailor Mercury cynically answered, while she secretly did sympathize with him by now... but only a little.
Robbie tried to steer the discussion into a better direction. "We should better all take some distance to that thing, considering all that radiation it emits." - "Point. But our Auras usually should conveniently shield us from most of it. At least for a while.", Mercury responded. - "How long until the radiation will reach its critical mass, anyway?", Sailor Mars wondered. - "30 Minutes approx.", both Rob and Mercury spilled out simultaneously, as they had come to the same conclusions, she on her Mercury Computer and he on his paper thin Data Pad. This sudden synchronity encouraged Sailor Jupiter to tiptoe over to the two, and with a cheerful "Ha! Bewitched!" she gave each of them a 'friendly' fistpunch to their shoulder joints. - "Hey, what?" - "♪Here comes the briiiide, here comes the briiiide!♫", Sailor Venus enthusiastically sang with a creepy cat smile on her face. - "As a bonus, two more for flinching!" Both recieved another double-fistpunch each. - "S-stop it, already!" The accused 'Lovers' were still synchronized, both blushing excessively, she in bright red and he in a distinctive greenish colour due to his Alien blood.
"L-let's change topic, please.", the severely embarassed Mercury pleaded. - "Yeah. Can we diffuse the bomb, Ami-chan?", Sailor Mars asked. Mercury shook her head. "Not from here as there are no visible buttons or wires or whatever on it. I'm afraid it's remotely controlled from somewhere else. I'll check on that." A few moments and quick key movements later, she blurted out: "As I thought! The signal's coming from a hidden spatial vessel in the Planet's Orbit!" - "Then somebody's gotta go up there and deactivate the thing on location.", Mars nodded. "You should try it. You're the best candidate for this kind of task. And take the guy with you. Two Computer Aces are even better than just one, y'know." - "Now wait a minute here...", Mercury stammered. - "Are these portals still active?", Venus asked. - "Positive. They work in both directions." - "Well, it's settled then. You two take care of the situation around here, and we others hop back home to Tokyo for a while to see if we can get a little help from our friends. (*Mischievous Smirk*) I'm sure you two Newlyweds, I mean you two Experts will handle it." - "You're really gonna leave me alone with her/him?", Rob and Mercury objected, pointing at each other. - "See you later, Alligator.", Venus joked with a big grin on her face, and thus they all went through, leaving the two bedazzled geniuses behind, but not without dragging Moon along who had just begun blowing phantom kisses and making smooch noises in their direction...

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Chapter 02 - Two Of A Kind

Robbie was the first to break the Silence. "Wow. I mean, just... wow. You have my utmost Sympathies. Brain the size of a Planet, and you gotta hang around with them?" Mercury cleared her throat. "Yeah, but as you already correctly hinted at, people like us can't really be picky about their friends." - "Still not an excuse, though. Well, so what are we gonna do now? Won't we need a Transporting Vehicle and Spacesuits to make it up there? And where'd we get those? Quite impossible to accomplish in just about half an hour, if you ask me." A little smile rushed over Merc's face. "Tee hee... Then you'd be surprised if I showed you the Alternatives. But first, let me ask you some questions so I can be sure if I really could trust you." Robbie crossed his arms and prepared for the worst. "Go ahead. I'm listening." - "Say, what's your I. Q.?" - "I don't know exactly, but according to Earth's old scaling system, it should at least be somewhere between Two Hundred and 3-something." - "Very well. Could it be, by any chance, that you're a chess player?" Rob proudly pointed at himself: "New York State Junior Chess Champion for six years in a row here." - "Impressive. And finally, what other foreign languages - besides the obvious Japanese - do you speak?" - "Hmm, let's see... Parli Italiano? O Español? Ou Português? Ou Français? Oder Deutsch? Or..." Mercury started feeling a bit embarassed. - "All right, all right, I see you're more than qualified to work with me." If he says he can speak Klingon, too, I'll shoot myself, she thought. "Now, could you please come over here with me? We'll need a little more space for this one." With these words, she took him by one arm and dragged him over with her to an empty and deserted spot. Then, she went into a kneeling position, closed her eyes, folded her hands in a meditative geste and started some silent chanting. Curious as he was, Robbie put his hands on his knees, bent down a little over to her and asked: "Excuse me, do you really think that Praying will solve any of our problems?" - "Quiet please, I must concentrate.", she dryly shot back and immediately resumed her ritual. After a short while, a mysterious circular wind started to blow, taking dust, sand and little rocks with it. A giant, blueish, bright-glowing Mercury sign☿appeared. It encompassed the two Teenagers and began spinning around its own axis. A blinding flash later, the result of all that 'Lightshow Stuff' became visible: A transparent, spherical bubble had surrounded them both. Robbie poked his finger into one of the sides and complimented, quite puzzled: "Wow! That's amazing! Fascinating! Is it too late now to confess that I feel a little claustrophobic?" Suddenly, Mercury reopened her eyes and ordered in a calm but demanding tone: "Hold. On. Tight." She snipped her fingers, and with a short but noticeable yank, the extraordinary, improvised flight machine raised up into the air and carried them away, accompanied by an adrenaline-fueled but muffled (to the Outside Observer) "Woah. Yaaaahoooooooo...!" from Rob's mouth...

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As the Earth's surface became smaller behind them, he turned around and looked over his shoulder. "Unbelieveable! I mean, I've been in Space before, but never like that!" - "Relax.", Mercury tried to calm him down in an almost bored tone. "As long as I'm still conscious and we both stay together close enough, we'll be fine." With these words, she grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back down closer to herself. "Yaaaay. Now I'm confident.", he snarked.
Eventually, a medium-sized Spaceship came into sight. "There it is. Prepare to board that vessel." Mercury pointed her finger towards the ship and for a moment, she went into Meditation once more. Robbie felt as if they were flying directly through the ship's Exterior!
They entered a dim-lit corridor at the far end. Once there, their bubble dissolved almost soundlessly, only with a soft *PLOPP!*, and they landed smooth and safely on their feet. "Let me get this straight: First, we're floating in the vaccum of Space protected by nothing more than a large soap bubble and next we phase right through the solid metal of a Spaceship's hull?", Robbie asked. - "A story you'll be telling your grandkids.", Mercury said with a smile. "By the way, I think we weren't properly introduced yet. Hello, I'm Mizuno Ami. Nice to meet you. And I sincerely apologize for my initial rudeness and hostility.", she added and went into a bow.- "Anderson, Robert Anderson. Or at least that's my name when I'm around here. Nice to meet you, too.", Rob answered and reciprocated the geste. They started to move on through the hallways, tracing back the electronical signature of whatever kept that thing in the Park running. "Now this looks suspiciously orphaned. No guards, no technicians or Maintaining Personel.", the perpetually mistrustful boy wondered. - "You forget the increasing Automatization." Halfway through, they seemed to have already reached their target: A cylindrical metallic object hung from the ceiling, narrowing down from top to bottom. Keys with illuminated numers or symbols on it were placed all over. "Now that's more like it. That's pretty much what I'd expect this kind of mechanism to look like.", Robbie said. - "Then let's see if we can hack its circuits to shut it down - unnoticed.", Mercury suggested. "Now where do you keep that IPad thing anyway?" Curiously she rolled up the bottom of his light blue Sweatshirt. There it was, stuffed away in the waistband of his stone-washed style Jeans. Funny. This way, it could have served as a fake sixpack. "No Stripping before the twelfth date or so.", Robbie half-heartedly joked. "One question: What do you think, if the Initialization of those things already opens the dimensional portals, why have them actually blow up at all?" - "First guess: To make such portals even bigger, maybe big enough that a whole Spaceship could pass through.", Mercury theorized. "Or in a Worst Case Scenario, an entire fleet!" - "So, a full-fledged Invasion?" - "Or possibly 'just' a multiversal Robbery. In every case, not funny at all. It's programmed in such a way that if you make too many mistakes, the Security Subroutine will have it go off prematurely. That's why you need at least two people to properly handle it. Perfidious, but effective nevertheless." - "We need to be super cautious and super precise, then.", Robbie remarked while he partially shoved himself below the underside of the console to get a better overview. - "And even if we actually manage to shut the whole thing down, a portal itself will probably stay open for some time after.", Mercury added. While her Mini Computer was busy translating the Alien Alphabet, she made a few steps towards the boy with her arms crossed behind her back and asked: "Say, do you have a girlfriend?" - "OUCH!" Due to surprise, Robbie conked his forehead on the underside of the console. Now why that kind of question, all of a sudden? Hesitatingly he stammered: "Er, well, ahem, to be honest, I've been close to a girl once, really close, if you understand what I mean. It wasn't a pleasant experience, though. It was out of a biological necessity, like Spock's Ponn-Farrh. And I was unconscious or delirious and fevrish most of the time, so it doesn't really count." Mercury pouted. "But on my book, it does. In the end, you should be able to turn every experience, be they good or bad, into something to learn from, into a lesson." - "If you say so..." - "First sequence on your side is B4 left, D5 center and double-click on G3 right." Robbie couldn't suppress a small chuckle. - "That somewhat sounds like a severely messed-up chess match. Or playing 'Battleships'. Check. Q3 center, T6 right and W1 left, thrice, is for you."
Suddenly, his phone rang in his pocket. A distressed female voice on the other end of the line yelled: "Bonnie here. What's going on? What is that thing?" - "Don't ask. Just make sure the Bomb Squad finally gets there. Tell them to seal off the area and to evacuate if they must. And in case we don't make it in time up here, please don't play the Hero. Just get fast on your feet and run for your life, O. K.?" - "Who the heck is 'we', Hubby?" - "I'll explain later." he replied and hung up. No girlfriend, huh?, Mercury thought...

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"If only the light wasn't so sparse!", she complained. - "Never mind.", Robbie countered. "I can see in the Dark. Built-in Night Goggles if you wanna say so.", pointing at his slightly glowing yellow eyes. - "Oh. Nice.", Mercury complimented.
A few more rounds of 'Back-and-Forth' later, they had finally succeeded in switching the doomed Apparatus off, judging by the lights and sounds slowly dying down. "Phew. That was close." Robbie left out a relieved breath. - "I have some good news for you and some bad news.", Mercury thew in. "The bad news is that this has been only one of several of these wicked little things, spread over multiple Dimensions. The good news is that for each one we eliminate the Deadline gets postponed for some time, as the remaining specimen must compensate for the Energy Loss somehow." - "So you think time might actually be on our side?" - "Yup, maybe. But don't worry. I got a feeling that we'll make it. As I tend to say: Fate protects fools, small children... and people with a clean record." That last line made Robbie quite thoughtful. - "Actually... mine isn't that clean anymore..." - "Huh?" - "I made a terrible mistake in the past. I have personally killed another guy." Robbie sat down beneath the console in a crouching position. "It was out of pure hate and vengeance, not self-defence. I thought he was responsible for blowing up our house and killing my foster family. Now, he had bullied me around in school for years, but of this he was probably innocent. And it wasn't even clear if my family was actually at home at the time, so they even might not be dead in the first place, it is unknown to me. But I was too blinded by the blood rush in that moment. First, I beat him up into a pulp and then I set him ablaze through Pyrokinesis. When my friends eventually had me snap out of it, it was already too late to do anything for him. For the last roughly two years now, I've been wrestling against myself if I finally should turn myself over to the Authorities and confess, as I'm permanently at risk of getting caught anyway. Drat, I hate myself so much for what I did! If only I knew how to turn back time, I..." Why did you tell her that? Now she's gonna hate you for sure!, Robbie thought to himself, awaiting the worst. Instead, he could hear a few rushed footsteps approaching, and the next thing he felt was a pair of slender yet somewhat strong arms embracing him from behind. Caught off guard by the surprise, it took him a moment to speak up. "W-what is the meaning of this, if I may ask?" - "Well, what does it look like to you? I'm trying to comfort you.", Mercury said in almost but a Whisper without looking up even once. - "It was long enough now. I'm not quite fond of physical contact, okay?" Carefully and as polite as possible, he tried to push her away from himself. And what he saw next, let his heart almost skip a beat: Little beads of tears had formed in the corners of the girl's Sapphire eyes. Well, Congratulations. You just made another one cry. You really have a hand with the Ladies. His thoughts got interrupted when Mercury started to weep: "Gomen nasai... I'm sorry." By now, she had properly activated the Waterworks as solid streams were running down her face. "I'm so, so, so, so, so, so terribly sorry for having been mean to you! I can't even remotely imagine how sad and lonesome you must feel. Please forgive me!" And then she started sobbing onto his chest. Robbie put his hands on her shoulders, pushed her away once more, looked into her eyes and pleaded calmly: "P-please stop Crying. I don't like that. And you're way too beautiful to get all gloomy." - "R-really?", she asked. - "And don't let anybody ever tell you otherwise. That you're no 'Dating Material' and so on. Anyone who got the opportunity to spend time with a young woman who possessed both Brains and Beauty could call themselves lucky." - "T-thank you." Her mood and face lightened up a bit. - "Might do something about the hair length, though.", Robbie added. - "Huh? So do you suggest, I should go completely bald, then?", she wondered while playing around with one of her blue bangs. He instantly tried to brush off the disturbing image that came popping up in his mind:

"WHAT? N-No, I meant that you should actually try letting it grow a little longer. Only a wee tad." Mercury snickered. "I know, I know! I'm only kidding, you Dummy! Don't always take everything so dead serious." To add insult to injury, she gave him a Jupiter-inspired fistpunch to the shoulder. Now that does it!, he thought. That's the fourth one on the same spot for today, that'll surely leave a bruise! He didn't like the way she was currently looking at him at all. Another Harem Candidate was all he needed right now! Let's hope she doesn't want me to show her my room in the near Future. - Let's hope he doesn't notice that I get turned on by boys whose intellect rivals my own and who compliment me like that... OMG what a Cutie!, Mercury thought simultaneously, and they both quickly took their eyes of each other in slight Embarrasment.
(Now, it should be mentioned that she eventually did get to see his bedroom from the inside - But that's just another story for another day...)
Robbie tried to diffuse the situation by saying: "We're wasting our time here. We need to find the other ships." - "Y-yes, let's go." - "I'm wondering why still nobody reacts to our Meddling here. How lazy. Don't they have any Alarming Sys - - -" - "Hey, you guys!", a male voice suddenly yelled. "Whaddya doin' there?" - "Nuts! Me and my big mouth!", Robbie hissed. He took Mercury by the hand and started to run. "Let's get out, quick!" - "Ah! But my - - -" She had noticed that her precious Computer was still lying next to that console. - "Later.", Robbie said and then he tried to push Mercury and himself around the nearest corner he could spot. - "That won't help ya, you annoying brats. Yer days are numbered.", the Alien guy threatened. He pulled out his Laser Pistol and started shooting in the direction of the two half-grown Intruders. Robbie unveiled his own small Blaster he had previously hidden and reciprocated fire. - "Wait, actual Firearms? Is that really necessary?", Mercury objected. "Let me handle this." She came out of her cover, took on a strange body pose and shouted: "MEEEERCUUUURYYYY! AAAAQUAAAA! RHAAAAPSOOOODYYYY!" Tubes of water emerged from her hands and took on the form of a transparent blue harp thing. - "Are you jokin'? Say gal, didn't yer Mommy tell ya that Water and Electricity's a lethal combination?" The Alien thug laughed and switched modes on his weapon, now shooting bolts of Lightning at poor Mercury, who then started stumbling backwards, squealing, dull-eyed, and collapsed right into Robbie's arms. The latter carefully sat her into the corner and went face to face with the Villain who prepared another shot. Imagine his surprised look when the flashes didn't really harm the guy. Instead, he was able to absorbe and combine them with his own. - "Using Electricity against me is like trying to exorcise the Devil with Beelzebub!" And on that last word, he threw the full load (plus a Bonus) right back at its origin. The man shrieked in pain and spasms and fell onto the floor like a bag. His last actions before he lost consciousness were pushing a button on his Equipment and passionately flipping the bird. Sirenes howled and a Computer voice said something which Robbie believed to be a Countdown to Auto-Destruct. He slumped the knocked-out Sailor Soldier whose costume's ribbons coincidentally matched the colour of his Sweater over his left shoulder and started to run like hell, but not before he picked up her Mercury Computer, just as promised. He also snatched away a little item from the wrist of the bad guy which had caught his Interest.
He searched for something like a Shuttle or Lifeboat to escape in. Bingo! Was that some kind of Bomber or so? With the Translation Matrix Mercury had created he was able to decrypt the Writings and Instructions on the machine. He sat down on the Pilot's seat and the girl next to him. He fastened the seatbelt on him, then hers too. Better safe than sorry. He also - very carefully - placed the MC on her lap, closed the hatch and started the engine. Just on time when the ship began to explode, they were outside over the Earth, and he started to bring the thing down if somehow possible. His phone which he had attached to the console (Laws were laws, after all) rang. It was Bonnie once again. "What's happening? I thought I saw something explode." - "Not now. Prepare to make a little way down there, I'm trying to land in a scavenged, er, borrowed Shuttle of some kind and I have another Passenger aboard with me. She's unconscious, and - - -" - "SHE???? Exactly what have you been doing up there? Well, just you wait until we get home...!" He hung up and continued the flight down while thinking: Apparently, I DO have a girlfriend, after all. And a particularly jealous one to start with.
The curly Blonde who was both his friend and his Co-Habilitand made quite big eyes when Robbie landed by her side. The bomb thing had been transported away by now, for Disassembly and for further Research. A hatch sprang open, her 'Hubby' hopped out, and without even a word of Greeting, he instead went into Commando Mode: "No time for big Explanations now. There's a girl on the Co-Pilot's seat. Please take care of her until she wakes up, you two. See you later." Then he ran right towards the portal to the Sailor Senshi's Homeworld and in one big leap, he jumped right through.
Only moments later, Mercury regained consciousness. She opened her eyes and wondered a lot about what first hit them: Two girls in Radiation Suits, but without the helmets, resting their ellbows on both sides of the unfamiliar Shuttle she sat in, smiling at her. One was a blonde Human, the other a Nezumi Female who wore her bubblegum pink hair in a braided pigtail. Bonnie approached Mercury's face, put on her most-polite-while-secretly-insulted smile and said in an almost singing voice: "Good Morning, Sunshine."

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When Robbie descended on the other side of the Portal, the four remaining Sailor Senshi were still there, apparently not having moved at all. "Oh, welcome back.", Sailor Mars said. "Were you successful?" - "Yeah, one down. Now up to the next. It should be somewhere around here.", Rob answered. Mars nodded. "I can sense the evil Auras. Someone discretely inform the Police while we go up on that Spaceship and whoop their... There is another ship in this world as well, right? Well, let's go then. Where's Mercury, by the way?" - "Left her back home in my world." - "Why? Why would you do that?" - "Because she's currently knocked out, that's why." - "Really? What horrible things did you do to her, you little Monster?" Sailor Venus eyed him suspectingly. - "I guess it can't be helped then.", Mars resigned. "Tuxedo Mask and the Outers are still searching for that bomb, so it's up to us four, no, wait, to us five now. And if Mercury isn't available right now, we'll have to substitute your powers instead. Have you ever... teleported?" Robbie replied: "Indeed. We have a Technology for that." - "Cool! You mean, like 'Beam me up, Scotty'?", Venus squeed. - "Actually it's more like in 'Stargate'." - "So you already know the basic principles.", Mars concluded. "Allright then, all of you, into the circle. Take your Neighbour's hands, close your eyes and just let it flow." Robbie was reluctant at first as he deemed all of this a little embarassing. Sailor Jupiter of all people reached out her hand and smiled at him. - "C'mon, you can trust us. We'll protect you if we have to." He couldn't figure out which version of her was creepier, but eventually, he took her hand. Then, the girls began to shout: "MAAAARS. EEEETEEEERNAAAAL. POOOOWEEEER!" - "JUUUUPIIIITEEEER. EEEETEEEERNAAAAL. POOOOWEEEER!" - "..." A few decent and soft kicks with Jupiter's shoetip to Robbie's ankle were meant to 'remind' him that it was expected to be his turn now. "M-must I really say it?", he asked, blushing green. - "Just to concentrate and for channeling the Energy Flow better.", Sailor Mars encouraged. Robbie sighed loudly, took a good breath and yelled: "TAAAAAL'AONAAAAAR. POOOOWEEEER!" - "VEEEENUUUUS. EEEETEEEERNAAAAL. POOOOWEEEER!" - "MOOOON. EEEETEEEERNAAAAL. POOOOWEEEER!" Differently coloured beams of Light and Energies started to emit from their bodies, blowing their hairs upwards as a side effect. - "Wow! Now that's some Mana boost!", Mars remarked, referring to Robbie's Light & Sparkle Aura. - "Heh heh, he's a Lightning Rod, too, Mako-chan.", Venus snickered. - "Shut up, Blondie!", Jupiter hissed. "Sailor. TELEPORT!" , and Whoooosh! they went, up into the sky as a rainbow of flashes.
They conveniently landed right next to the Control Console. This ship was obviously of identical build as the first one. But before they could do or say anything, somebody screamed: "Hold it! We've been waitin' for you guys." On cue, several heavily armed men approached, encircling our Heroes, trying to hold them back from continuing their path. The Commander observed them all carefully and added: "Those four are new." Turning over to Robbie, his eyes narrowed, and he began to growl: "But I know you. Yeah, that's one of the two. Ye know what ya did? You and yer Little Blue Riding Hood killed my lil' brother. MURDERERS!" - "I'm sorry, but your brother knew what he had signed up for.", Robbie defended himself. "It was either him or us, and he shot first. When he activated the Self Destruction before he went out, he chose his own fate. We didn't kill anybody. (Not today...)" - "Nitpicking! At them, boys! Finish them so we can go on and have Lunch on time."
Just when it looked most hopeless, an all too familiar voice interrupted: "SHAAAABOOOON SPRAAAAYYYY!", and the bad guys found themselves inside a thick mist they couldn't see through, while the Senshi and their Allies could. The Gunmen started panicking: "Sir, what is this?" - "Witchcraft!" - "We can't see a fig!" - "Guess, the odds have once again shifted to our advantage.", Sailor Jupiter said with a diabolical grin while letting her knuckles creak. One could only hear the slaps and punches and the moanings of pain from the Baddies through the (in)conveniently censoring fog. The Commander was now on his own again, severely outnumbered and on the edge of wetting himself.
"Mercury... Long time, no see!", Mars said in an audibly relieved tone. "We thought you were still out cold." - "And leave all the fun to you guys?", the former responded with a smile. "No, nay, never. Your reports of my 'Death' have been highly... Well, you probably know the rest." - "How did you get here anyway?", Venus wanted to know. - "It was simple: I just followed your traces." - "That's our Ami-chan."
By now, the Commander remembered that he did have a Laser Weapon. He charged it to prepare opening fire. Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Moon took Position to encounter the Attack. "We're building up a Force Field around us. Quick, you two, do your job before the shield breaks down!", Mars whispered. Rob and Mercury took the chance to try repeating their success. But alas, a look on his Pad's Display was quite discouraging as time was running down and out mercilessly. "This is my last trump for now. Please stand still for a moment and concentrate very hard. I can do this only once in a while, so it'd better work!" Then, he put his hand on her head, they both closed their eyes and hoped for the best...

Luna Crescens

When they reopened their eyes, a Dead Silence lay in the air. Everything and everybody around them seemed petrified mid-movement. "Oh. You can freeze time, too? Isn't that illegal?", Mercury wondered. - "Technically speaking, it's not frozen, but moving incredibly slow for us. I regard that as a loophole. It's because I built up an invisible, special type of Aura around us two which shields us against the rest of the Universe. This way, we might have enough time to deactivate this one here. But still, let's hurry up, because it won't last forever!"
Meanwhile, the other Senshi were still holding up against the trigger-happy Alien Mercenary. "Patience, girls. Just keep it up a little longer!", Sailor Mars shouted. The close Observer could notice two streams of multiple colours racing back and forth around the console behind them. - "...And ready!", Robbie said. Just in time, their protection started to die down, and time resumed to flow in its normal speed now. "Boy, I tell you this is quite exhausting." He panted. "They didn't even bother to change the code. To be honest, I feel a little insulted." By now, the Force Field of the others also was at its end, and they had to go into Defense. - "Guess it's my turn again to show you one of my Specialites.", Mercury responded. "Hold still." She raised both arms and, carefully but sturdily, grabbed him by his belt and collar and somehow managed to push him upwards over her head. Then, with a specific twitch in one of her facial muscles, she activated a little modification she had built into her Senshi Costume by herself: Small wheels protruded from the soles of her boots, effectively turning them into makeshift Rollerblades! "Now, spread out your legs and don't move any further. Keep a good grip." And with that words, she started spinning around in an awesome velocity (Insert Dead Moon Circus/Mirror Paredri Music here). She kept this up until one of those Energy Bolts finally ricocheted from her unvoluntary Guinea Pig's feet and went right back towards their owner who was forced to drop his weapon. While massaging his wrist from the pain of the impact, he sadly looked at the lump of molten metal and plastic on the floor. - "Now's our chance. Chaaaarge!", Sailor Jupiter yelled. So they all jumped on the guy and gave him the spanking of his life. Mercury released poor Rob from his 'torture' and set him down. He was dizzy and still spinning a little. "Ulp. A good thing I didn't have Breakfast yet.", he lamented before he could stabilize himself again. - "Now you have another trick in your arsenal, too.", Mercury boasted. - "And a freakin' hole in my shoe.", Robbie replied while looking down on the - still smoking - Silver Dollar-sized gap in the sole of his right Sneaker, revealing the skin underneath. - "We can put a band-aid on it once we're ready.", Mercury pouted. "And be grateful that the bolt didn't go straight up your pants instead." - "Ouch." He flinched at the mere imagination. - "Quick. Let's all buzz off before they wake up again.", Mars threw in. "You're coming with us. An Insider could prove useful. I'm afraid you won't rejoin your brother tonight.", she smirked and grabbed the guy who's hands she had bound together with a piece of loose wiring as improvised handcuffs. He was sitting on the floor in all his Misery, staring into Emptiness and crying like a little girl. The only thing that was able to drown out the sound of his Whining was a sudden, very loud stomach growl. Sailor Moon waved her hands up in defense. "Don't look at me. This time it's not my fault." And it wasn't. The 'culprit' in question was none other than Robbie who was cowering in a corner, visibly paler than usual and with a pitiful face. A few moments later, Jupiter squatted down before him. "What must I hear? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.", she reprimanded him. Had Mercury told him in? "No, Sir. You, my friend, are going nowhere else before we didn't get you something to eat first." - "I guess I'm currently too weak to object, huh?", he asked in a thin, broken voice. - "Correct. And since you're a guest in this Universe, we'll pay. Right, girls?" - "Yes, Ma'am!", the others shot out in unison. - "Now that I look closer, I must say that you have almost exactly the same hairstyle and colour as my Ex-B- - -" - "Don't you dare to finish that sentence, Makoto!", everybody else snarled at her, resulting in her putting her arms behind her head and giggling. - "Well then, you allow? Oopsy Daisy!" With only one hand, she lifted the hungry boy up as if he was just some empty schoolbag or the like and put him onto her shoulders so she could give him piggyback. Not really a wonder if he didn't eat regularly. "You carried our friend when she was in need, so this is our way to retaliate. Don't worry. We'll refuel your tank in no time."
Then, they all went back into a circle and started to repeat their Teleporting Sequence. Now that Mercury was back aboard, they surely had enough Energy at their Disposal to take one or two additional passengers with them...

Luna Crescens

"Hawk Moth! You wicked, sick purple puppy! Is that your work again, over there?", the Teenage girl dressed in a red One Piece Jumpsuit with a black Polka Dot pattern on it yelled in the Direction of a creepy projection at the Paris sky. It was of a man who was wearing a somewhat Fantomas-inspired Costume. - "Hmph. No! Even an evil genius like me needs a day off now and then.", he protested. - "Then who else could produce such a thing, such kind of Anomaly?", she asked, pointing at the brightly-glowing Event Horizon thing that had appeared right in the middle of the Place de la République. Her partner, a boy in black leather and fake cat ears, theorized: "Aliens, maybe? A mad scientist? Or a mad Alien scientist?" She snickered. - "You're watching too many bad Horror Movies at night, mon cher Adrian." - "At least, it would be a welcome change from having to fight your own father again and again for years."
Suddenly, the Anomaly lit up some more as a bucketload of people of whom many were equally uncommonly dressed as the two poured out of it. One of them, a brown-haired boy in Jeans and a light blue Sweatshirt, approached them directly and said: "Bonjour! I know how strange or frightening this might look. But perhaps I can explain..."
A large crowd of Fighters from different Universes had gathered in one of the Classrooms of Marinette's a. k. a. Ladybug's school. Robbie disclosed the Overall Situation to the Newcomers. Because of the multinational Cast, he had switched back to English by now. Sailor Mercury had connected her Mini Computer to a Beamer to project an Animation of what was going on onto a whitescreen next to the Teacher's desk.
"...And that's the situation so far. Now I've been informed that after our team already successfully diffused two of these things, our Opponents have changed tactics and retreated to their secret Homebase to try controlling everything from there. Our task is to find and defeat them and return everything to normal. It should only be a matter of time now until the site of their Hideout will be located. Any questions?" A foul- and loudmouthed girl with short brown hair tied up with yellow ribbons raised her hand. - "So you mean we get to kick some little green butts?" - "Well, they're actually orange, not green and anything else than small, but yes, you'll get to kick them." - "Great. Me and my Baseball bat just can't wait.", she said with a creepy smile while she rubbed her hands in Enthusiasm and Anticipation. Inbetween, he looked backwards over his shoulder at the pile of inedible remains from all the Fast Food and Delicatessen on a table the Senshi had stuffed him up with. A cross-popping vein appeared on his temple. Now all was right what was right, but did they really have to carry the garbage along with them through several Dimensions? No wastebaskets in their Tokyo? "Next, please." Another girl in a Vixen costume pointed at Rob and Mercury and asked in a thick French accent: "Excüse me, but could it be possible that the two of you are a couple?" Cue the Stereo Mercurys: "NO, WE'RE NOT!!!!" Robbie rubbed his eyes and moaned softly. "Come on now, any serious questions? And no, I am not going to say 'Ha ha Pluto, come here Pluto'." An Adult Senshi with long green-black hair - Sailor Pluto - looked confused. "What? Who me? What do you mean?", she asked, quite puzzled, while the younger black-haired girl next to her - Sailor Saturn - chuckled. - "Yeah. Very Funny, ha ha.", Robbie snarked. "Grow up already. Get a life!"
A person of political power who was attending the secret Meeting as well via Video Chat interrupted: "May I say something first: While it is true that our scientists pioneered the Technology for interdimensional Travel and Communication, we assure you that these men's actions are in no way associated with our government. We regard them as 'Free Agents' at best and Pirates at worst." The captured Commander was sitting in her Office, now with real handcuffs, still sobbing and complaining. "And because of that, we... PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER, MAN! WE'RE ALL SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS! I HAVE TO WORK HERE, OKAY? Now, where were we? Right. Now we decided to give you green light for doing whatever is necessary to stop and take care of them. After all, this is a serious threat to all of us! We'll generously take a blind eye on every possible Collateral Damage that might coincide along the way. That would be all for now. Over and out." - "Thank you, Lady Magistrate. Over and out.", Robbie replied with a light bow. The he turned back to his Audience in the room. "One final word: This is not going to be a Walk in the Park. It's not about catching Butterflies or turning nasty little Demon Creatures into nicer ones. It will be an actual Battle. Severe injuries or - in a Worst Case Scenario - even Casualties might occur. So I won't rub it in if anybody decides to step down in the last Minute. That'll be all. Class is dismissed." Those words had made Mercury thoughtful. "What's the matter? You look somewhat distressed." - "Well, I am.", she answered in a soft voice. "Imagining I'd have to fight in a real war, with all its negative consequences, gives me the creeps. Makes me shudder right down unto my Unmentionables." Sarqui, the tomboyish Captain of the Nezumi Royal Guards, was just the right recipient for that way of saying it. "'Unmentionables'? Say, what are you? Some effing Nun? Why you don't just say 'T***ies and Hoo-Ha'?" - "I-I'm not the kind of person for that!", Mercury stammered. - "And you call yourself a, wait, what was that again, a 'Sailor Soldier'? How pathetic. Go home. Girls like you should continue playing with their Barbie Dolls." *WHAM!* Surpisingly, Mercury suddenly slammed her fists onto her desk, stood up, let her chair drop and walked right towards that braided nuiscance. Without Warning, she thrusted one of her knees into her Abdomen, punched her in the face and with a highly compressed blast of ice from her right palm she made her sliding and spinning several meters across the floor. A murmur went through the crowd. "HOW'S THAT? IS THAT 'SOLDIER-ESQUE' ENOUGH FOR YOU NOW?", Mercury bellowed. Robbie had to hold her back to prevent any further escalation. Not good. I'm getting more and more attracted to her!, he secretly thought. Meanwhile, Sarqui was already standing up again. "Oooowwww. Ow, Ow, Ow. Ow Chihuahua! You shee? Now that'sh more like it. That'sh the Shpirit!", she said with a black eye and an unignorably swollen face. - "B-but's that's not my usual self. I apologize for overreacting just now. I don't know what got into me.", Mercury whimpered. "This situation takes it toll from each and everyone of us." - "Let's waste no more time, then. Everybody, get ready. We'll take off now.", Robbie declared. Chairs were hastily and noisily put away, and a Potpurri of voices arose. He breathed in and prepared to leave as well, when Haruhi Suzumiya put her hand on his shoulder and said: "Don't be afraid. We'll protect your cute girlfriend. It's decided!" - "But... She's not my girlfriend! That would rather be - - -" He stopped mid-sentence. He was just about to publicly admit that he had a girlfiend, although that honor would go to his friend Bonnie instead. "But where is she, all of a sudden? She just sat over there a Moment ago. Maybe she went ahead. Allright then, let's go. Good luck, everyone..."

Luna Crescens

The data they had recieved from the Meruvinian Magistrate led them into some strange kind of Midworld in which the walls looked somewhat warped and a high pressure of unnknown origin weighted upon their bodies. At one point, the Sailor Senshi's costumes suffered under this outside force in a way that they phased out and the poor girls appeared naked which was about too much for our shy, celibate Hero. "What is this?", he complained, "Some intergalactic Peep Show?" - "It... can... happen...", Mercury stated, panting and breathing flat, "if our powers... get tugged at... by a gravitational source... of extraordinary Magnitude... like... let's say a Black Hole, or Singularity." She was so weak that he had to support her with his own weight. - "Could it be a trap? Can we turn around and go back and look for an alternate route to bypass?" She shook her head after checking the readouts of her Computer which was currently basically the only thing she was still carrying on her person. - "Once we entered, the Entrance automatically closed behind us. This is probably to ensure that no additional unwanted personnel intrudes." - "So it's 'Grit your teeth and get to it', then. What kind of place is this anyway?" - "It's some kind of super-condensed pathway, presumely leading to a Destination quite far away, possibly even into another Gala - - - Hey, are you listening?" Robbie had turned his head sideways, green-blushing deeply. - "L-listening, yes. But I'm definitely trying not to look." - "Oh." Mercury stared halfway down at the floor. "Now that's nice and chivalrous from you and all, but not very helpful in this situation. We all must thoroughly watch our step around here, or we could get lost. I can mourne for my Modesty later." Sailor Moon had to think back to her Encounter with Galaxia and shouted over to the two: "You'll get used to it, Ami-chan." - "I have a question: Does your girlfriend nag that much, too?", Tuxedo Mask asked. - "MAMO-CHAN!?", Moon hissed. - "He/she's not my... Ack, I give up.", the prospected other turtle doves self-defended, once again as if they were one person. "Well, if you want to do something really chivalrous, try to warm me up a little. After all, you're still dressed.", Mercury whispered and snuggled herself even tighter around Robbie's chest. - "H-hey, I'm not your personal Heating Cushion!", he protested, but there was no Escape for now. So, after a while, he eventually took her shivering hands in between his own and started to rub and blow his breath at them to make them warmer. I'm such a dead man when I get home, he thought. And if I believed in that kind of stuff I'd be sure that I'll be going straight to Hell for this. She was unable to suppress a smile. One could actually feel the waves of utter jealousy from the three remaining Inner Senshi even among all the omnipresent gravitational pull. Wait, did she just blow us the Raspberry?, they all pondered. Suddenly, a drop of green blood slowly dripped down on the floor from Rob's nose, 'hopefully' due to the circumstances and not due to arousal. And this terrible headache! "Quick, let's find the Exit already, before we all get crushed like pancakes!", he yelled. But that was easier said than done as the other Fighters weren't left unharmed either; Ladybug's team was back in their streetclothes and Yuki the Cyborg girl was 'inoperable'.
After some time a tiny, bright spot could be seen before them. "There! That must be the way out... I hope so."

Landing in the grass dampened his downfall a bit. Next was Mercury whom he just barely managed to catch in his arms. She was now back in her Fuku, a fact that made her quite relieved. Then the other team members dropped out one by one. They found themselves in an Environment in which, so it seemed, it was currently Nighttime.
Mercury's Computer told her that: "There's an elongated building with numerous Lifeforms inside, only a few kilometers away, in this direction." - "That must be the place where our Enemies are hiding from us." , Sailor Jupiter said. "Let's go and kick them out."
The building in question was a huge Bunker. Mercury checked on the centimeters-thick door and was amazed. "It's massive. Too massive. All of our combined muscular strength might not be enough to even just scratch it." - "Out of the way!", Robbie suddenly shouted while pushing her aside when an enormous, bright wave of Energy shot towards the door and noisily blasted it apart. After the dust had settled, they could see that the originator was a humongeous red Mecha. "WARN US NEXT TIME, OKAY?", Robbie blurted out. - "Gern geschehen. (=You're welcome)", was the Answer in German which came from a female voice inside via external speakers. Then, Bonnie unexpectedly reappeared. She was wearing Combat Gear with Camouflage and a German Steel Helmet while she carried a Machine Gun. "Surprised? I brought them along. I thought they'd make a good Reinforcement." Robbie scratched his head and responded, albeit hesitatingly: "Yeah... The more, the better." The pilot inside the Mecha turned to her comrades: "Allright. Shinji? Rei? Toji? Kensuke? Kaworu? Hikari? Mana? Mari? You all remember the plan? Scatter! Secure the area and make sure that nobody else gets in or out before the Cops arrive!" - "Yes, Commander!", the other pilots replied in unison and prepared to encircle the building as ordered. Robbie waved at his remaining forces. "Now or never. Everybody get ready... 3, 2, 1, chaaaarge!"

Luna Crescens

A young Guard who just came back from his nap and had been awoken by the noise outside saw the gang of Intruders standing at what was formerly a door. The mere shock let him drop his Coffee Mug. When he reached out his shaky hand to push the Alarm button, Sailor Venus intervened. "Oh no, you won't! VEEEENUUUUS LOOOOVEEEE MEEEE CHAAAAIIIIN!" The guy's eyes widened even more when an orange-glowing chain composed from heart-shaped links lashed at and encased him. He started panicking and stumbled around until he dropped down on his buttocks and - unintentionally - bumped his head, hitting the button with it anyway. As the bells started ringing, the other Senshi scolded: "Minako-chan!" with a large Sweatdrop running down on each of them, and the latter giggled and did the famous Hand-behind-my-head-because-I-goofed-up gesture.
Now countless men poured out from numerous doors into the corridor like a garrison of Stormtroopers. But, other than feared first, although some of them tried to use dangerous weapons, just like the eponymous Troopers from the Star Wars Movies, their numerical majority didn't help them in any way. Instead, they found themselves at the receiving end of a classic, one-sided Schoolyard Bully Beatdown, albeit the nicer and more reasonable Team Members tried to actually kill as few of them as possible - They were the good guys, after all! Sailor Mars singed one's Behinds with a toned-down version of her Flame Sniper. Another man who wanted to avenge his comrade by attacking her from behind with his Dagger got held in place and pinned back into a corner by Tuxedo's and Cat Noir's canes. Sarqui - still black-eyed but nonetheless effective - held down a third one while Hinagiku/Angel Daisy gleefully stomped on him again and again. Haruhi chased some more opponents with her bat. And so on. In the end, all of this was almost just for one reason: To enable the two Computer Cracks to get to a certain Terminal which was reportedly the last line of Defense before the Main Server Room. "And you had me worried." A broadly smiling Mercury shrugged her shoulders. - "Yup, I'd like to know where everybody always gets all these Freaks. At a Garage Sale for super-incompetent Henchmen or what? Cheaper by the Dozen?", Robbie wondered. Suddenly, one of the Enemies 'flew' through right between them and landed in a corner just behind them witch a crushing noise. "Watch out where you dump them!" , Robbie complained. - "Sorry guys! Sometimes I don't know my own strength.", Sailor Jupiter answered from somewhere across the room. After a nice path had finally been cleared for the two, he signaled Mercury: "Now's our chance. Go for it!" Only a few steps away from their goal, a bulky Soldier with a heavy Laser Rifle tried to prevent them from advancing: "Stop you two! I wouldn't go any further if I were you." - "Well, try to hold me back.", Robbie waved off. - "Don't say I didn't warn you." He aimed at the boy and fired a single shot, directly at his back what apparently stopped his walk here. Several voices shrieked up and especially Bonnie's eyes started to get watery. "Y-Y-YOU BASTARD! I LOVED THIS MAN! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS! ARRGH!", she screamed and got her own weapon ready. But then, Sailor Mercury grabbed the barrel and yanked it upwards, so the bullets went into the ceiling instead. "No, wait! Look closer!" The not-quite-dead Robbie snickered, turned around, arose like a Zombie and in a single, quick and smooth movement, he took off his Sweater, showing that, by now, he was wearing a Nezu Army chestplate underneath it. "Ash bush! Did you really think I wouldn't take precautions? There's a reason why people call me a 'Teen Genius', heh heh... Ouch!" Bonnie slightly slapped him. "You scared the living Hell out of me, you Jerk!" - "SAAAAIIIILOOOOR MOOOON KIIIICK!" And thus the mentioned girl's boot hit the Gunman's chin, toppling him over, and before he could react, she, Mars, Jupiter and Chibimoon all went down on him. Now Rob and Mercury could turn all their attention to their next attempt at Decryption.
"And make sure to give him another one in my name for that hole in my favourite Sweatshirt. Okay, here we go. Check for Firewalls and Emergency Protocols. Not that we almost get blown up ag - - -" He got interrupted by something very ghastly that appeared on the Monitor. The grunts of a man and the moanings of a woman could be heard. - "Eeeewwww! My eyes! My poor, innocent eyes!", Mercury screeched, shielding her face. Robbie managed to pause the Playback and said with a crushed Expression: "That wasn't the Mainframe. That obviously was their private Porn Collection." - "I-I don't think this is even anatomically possible!", she added while pointing at something on the screen. - "I'm afraid this is quite a step more advanced than these consoles on the spaceships. We need some help here." One Gilligan Cut later, Yuki Nagato had taken Rob's place at the Terminal. Due to her nature, she was able to connect herself with the Computer and try her luck with hacking into the System. "Scanning... Computing... Taking over the Subroutines...Now this is gross... Bypassing Safety Measures... I'm in! It's done." Slowly, the halves of the thick metallic door slid open. - "Thanks, Yuki-san! You're awesome.", Robbie complimented while patting her shoulders. - "And you're welcome.", she replied.

Luna Crescens

"Hands off that console!", Robbie lashed at the Commanding Officer who was hastily and frantically jumping back and forth between varying terminals and switchboards. "Your Evildoing ends here. Now that I look closely... Haven't we met before?" - "Hrmph. You mean because us Meruvinians all look the same to you?" - "No, that's not the point. I believe it was back then when I was kidnapped alongside my Bodyguard, probably in an attempt to get Information or Ransom out of me. I knew I had seen that ship design somewhere before. So tell me, what was the big idea, fiddling around with the fabrics of Spacetime like that?" - "Well," he shrugged off, "After you spoiled our plans the last time, we had to play bigger, and if it just was for Compensation alone. Speaking of it, I'm afraid I'll have to sue my Agent who got me all these noobs for an Army. One Hundred or more grown men let themselves be curb-stomped and beaten by a Classroom full of kiddies, Nerds and little girls? Pathetic! But I assure you that I'm a totally different calibre. So what could you do to stop me now?" - "I guess, this is your cue then." Enter the girl in a blue, ruffled miniskirt and boots who stood before them, arms crossed and giving the Captain an accusing, demotivational speech: "It is unforgivable to abuse the achievements of Science for your personal profit and to endanger people's lives! But your schemes were all as hopeless as a bubble! For I am the beautiful Soldier of Water and Wisdom, a Champion of Love and Intelligence in a Sailor Suit, Sailor Mercury! Douse your head in some cold water and repent!" - "Could you say that again please?" - "Hmmmm. I said, it is unforgivable to abuse the achievements of Science for - - - Sir, are you KIDDING me?" - "However, what would a weak girl like you be hoping to do about me, then?", the man asked while he secretly tried to reach for a weapon to attack with. A surprisingly creepy smirk escaped Mercury's face. "I'm glad that you're asking. SHAAAABOOOON SPRAAAAYYYY FREEEEZIIIING!" , she shouted and started 'nailing' the guy against the wall with great amounts of ice which 'magically' welled out from between her fingers.
Meanwhile, the guard from the Entrance who was the youngest and most unexperienced of the lot, somehow had managed to pry himself loose from Sailor Venus' grip. He stormed down the corridors, the LMC still wrapped around him. He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the Unthinkable: A blue-haired little witch stood right in the middle of the Command Center, apparently trying to murder his Superior Officer with Water Magic! He increased his speed, screaming: "Oh Captain, my Captain! I'm comin' to your aide, Siiiir!", preparing to intervene. But his plans got cut short when suddenly a red-and-black patterned yo-yo came in from around a corner and entangled him, adding another layer of rope into the mix. Its owner, a twintailed girl in an outfit of the same colour scheme had previously hidden behind said corner and now she pulled the guy towards herself and down to his knees. - "Domou arigatou.", Venus politely and thankfully murmured. - "Pas de rien... It's nothing.", Ladybug answered. (Incidental notes)
"Good job, everyone.", Robbie said over the Bunker's speaker system. "Please prepare to return to your respective Universes once I begin to deactive the system, effectively closing down the portals. I'll send you the specific signatures and coordinates." A loud and cheerful "Affirmative." could be heard from multiple throats, followed by quick footsteps. - "Shall we go, Mylady?", Cat Noir asked his partner with his trademark Courtesy bow. - "Yes, please. And hurry up. After all, you still owe me that Date, Monsieur permanently-busy-and-overworked-super-important-Teenie-Model Agreste!" - "As you wish, Mylady. As you wish." - "Well, then..." Rob turned back to the Big Bad who was still caught in his ice cage. "Any last words before I inform the local Authorities that they now may collect the pieces of what's left of you guys?" The Boss spat out despisingly and yelled: "Go to Hell, and back! I have nothing to say to you! Now, if it only wasn't for you *BLEEP*ing meddling kids..." From there, the man's speech degenerated into a plethora of profanties which made Mercury cringe and blush heavily. "S-stop it, Sir!", she whined. "You are nothing but a mean-spirited, poorly educated, vulgar and impolite person. You should be ashamed!" - "Hey, hey, easy now." Robbie took her gently by the shoulder. "Calm down. Scum like that isn't even worth the fuzz. Just close your eyes, take a deep breath and say something to yourself along the lines of 'La la la, I can't hear you, I don't listen. You can't insult me, you can't intimidate me.'" She sighed audibly and answered: "Okay, I'll give it a try." They turned around and got ready to leave, when the Captain interrupted: "Wait, one last question: Could it be - for any reason - that the two of you - you and that smurf-scalp with the tomato face - are... Lovers or something?" Now this had the kettle finally boiling over for poor Mercury. - "Uh-oh. I'm outta here..." An alarmed Robbie decided to turn his tail and run away as fast as he could. - "Shut up, already!" the uncharacteristically enraged Bluenette screamed. "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up! Just! Shut! Your! Stupid! Hole!" while she raised her right hand and clogged the Sucker's potty mouth with another chunk of ice. Then she angrily turned around on her heels and hastily walked away. She stopped for a moment, taking a short glimpse at the various alternate versions of herself in these windows/monitors to different Dimensions and Realities, somewhat similar to one of those crazy mirror cabinets at the fairs. However, she couldn't decide who that rather strange, sickly pale-looking, bald-headed chick with the glowing red eyes in a semi-transparent, seductiveley high cut-out evening gown was and where to put her (I'm talking to you, Pusakuronu! ), or that curly Redhead in a floating wheelchair, or... - "Are you gonna take roots in there, or what?", her thoughts got interrupted. "We gotta go now." - "Y-yes, I'm coming!", she shouted, and off she went...

Luna Crescens

The entire Sailor Senshi gang - all of them - had gathered in front of the Dimensional Portal in the Central Park to bid farewell to Rob and his friends. The other fighters had been split up into smaller groups who hitchhiked in either of the numerous Evangelions for getting home. This portal had been the first to open and thus the last to close and it would do that anytime now. The Meruvinian Interceptor Robbie had used to escape from the exploding spaceship had been left to him as a gift of parting and gratitude and a geste of good will and anticipation for future cooperation. That and the strange wrist devices he had obtained from the Space Pirates. It had turned out that those were portable Remote Controls for sending a single person or small objects through and that yes, they worked independently from the main Energy source. He kept one for himself and the other he had given to Mercury whom he thought to be the only one of the lot to work and understand properly and to use it in a responsible and reasonable way.
"I'm curious what will happen to these guys now?", Bonnie asked. - "I don't know. While we certainly spared most of them, according to their world's laws, they still might face a Death Sentence for their crimes.", Robbie theorized. "It may sound gruesome, but who are we to judge other Cultures." Then he turned his attention over to the Senshi. "There's one thing I wanted to know almost from the beginning.", he said. "Why would you all reveal your identities to me so easily?" - "One: Unusual circumstances. And two: If you really read about our Adventures, you should already have known who we are, anyway.", Mercury shrugged off. - "And don't worry. Your dark little secret is in good hands. Everybody can have a bad day now and then.", Jupiter added with one blinking eye. - "Wha-? But how did you know?", Robbie wondered. - "Didn't you notice? Once we join forces, we also share our thoughts with each other.", Mars calmly explained. - "It all came rushing in to me at once, so I put it aside as just thought noise." - "Over the long term, you'll learn to filter it out for yourself." , Mercury lectured him. Suddenly the sound of paws approaching could be heard. A trio of cats with strange crescent moons on their foreheads appeared on the scene, one a purplish black female, a white male and their daughter, a pale lavender kitten. The Female started to shout: "Quick, hurry up! The portal is about to shut down every moment now. We must go through soon if we want to get home." - "I promise I'll make sure they'll leave just in time.", Robbie said to her while squatting down before them and caressed her head. Luna sighed. "Yeah. I wish some of them were that reliable, especially Usa - - - Wait, aren't you surprised or puzzled that we can talk?" He silently shook his head. - "I have seen much stranger things before." - "And never forget: You can visit us anytime.", Mercury said with a somewhat sad smile. And if Pluto agrees, she added in her thoughts. Then, she walked towards him and hesitatingly pleaded: "I'd like to get to know you better. We two should work together again, we make up an amazingly good team! And we could use any help we can get in our ongoing fight against the evil forces of the Multiverse." - "Yes, I felt it too.", he answered. "Something very dark arises. Although the two phenomenons don't necessarily need to be related." Then, she went on her toetips, but not much as he wasn't significantly taller than her, carefully hugged him, whispering "Thank you very much. Thanks for everything.", blushing slightly, and gave him a short and friendly yet sensuous smoochie on his left cheek. The other girls' reactions varied from shameful Snickering over Fangirling to outright Squeeing. "Yaaaay! We knew it!" - "Go for it, Ami-chan!" - "Chibi! Chibi! Kiss! Kiss!" - "Woo-hoo-hoo!" Bonnie wasn't that enthusiastic, though. "ROBERT! GOLDENEYE! ANDERSON! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?", she screamed. Mercury giggled. "So you are the one? Calm down. I won't snatch him way from you.", she ensured while playfully and affectionately messing up his short, light brown hair. "But you do have a hidden gem right here." Suddenly her face became horrifyingly earnest. "Really now: Be sure to treat him well and thoroughly watch over him. Or else I'll come back and take over. You got that?" - "Uh-Oh. Déjà-vu, anyone?", Seiya Kou/Starfighter gnarled through his/her teeth. The other two Starlights whistled and/or looked elsewhere as if this was none of their business. - "All right, all right.", Bonnie growled. "Was 'ne Zicke! (What a B-Word!)" she hissed to herself. - "I heard that! And be assured that I perfectly understand you, mein Fräulein!", Mercury shot back. Although her English/German was quite good, it was still light years away from accent-free. Then they all had to laugh. While everybody de-transformed, Sarqui guided a few words in Mercury's direction: "And if you ever have some spare time and nowhere else to go, why not come over here to us or to our Palace on Murus? We have plenty of space there, and our happy homely Hot Tub always can take up one more, or even two." - "Wait a second. I'm not sure if you can just invite people in my name that easily." , Robbie objected. AMI who was standing near the portal, giggled once more. "We won't start nitpicking now, will we? Well, as the properly raised, polite Japanese girl that I am, I feel I have no other choice but to accept such a nice invitation and to seriously consider it.", she said and went into a deep, respectful bow." - "So it's goodbye then, let's go!", somebody shouted, and they all went through. Ami was the last to do so. She waved her hand especially in Rob's direction, eyes closed and broadly smiling: "See ya, Sugar...♥", she said and disappeared, as did the portal, dissolving into Nothingness...

Robbie looked quite stunned. "Is she serious? Must I be concerned now?" - "Looks like she's on your heels now. You're such a Casanova." Bonnie patted his shoulder with a big grin. He moaned loudly. "Well, let's go home now, Sweetheart." - "Yes. I need a long hot bath and a good Supper." He yawned. "This was a very exhausting and exciting day. Unbelievable that, from our POV, all of this happened within just one single day, because it felt like Eternity." As they walked off into the Sunset, Sarqui raised a question: "What do you think, your Highness? Should we have someone write down our Adventures, too? To spread the word and possibly make some extra cash from it?" - "Seriously, who'd read that kind of stuff, anyway?"

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THE END of Crossover Crisis, but the Adventures of Rob and his friends will continue.

Use of the Guest Characters in respect for their rightful owners and Copyright holders etc. pp. bla bla.

Luna Crescens

Now imagine a variation/affectionate parody of the 'Moon Princess' Ending in which the Silhouette of a dancing Princess Mercury in Serenity's place can be seen on the screen of her (enlarged and stylized) Computer. The lyrics are appropriately altered and Robbie himself is added as the Lead Singer...

Around and around
The (smooth) Mercury gyroscope
Changing into the slightly cool dress of 'ice'
Always there, watching over it all
Mercury Princess
In the day it’s the scent of flowers
At night it’s the shining of the stars
And there lies the world that no one knows of
She puts on the blue slippers
And crosses the bridge to the blue star
Dreaming of that sweet kiss
Lives the royal princess
Offer your prayers to Mercury
And someday it will bring you happiness

Around and around
The Mercury gyroscope
Changing into the slightly cool dress of glass
Always there, watching over it all
Mercury Princess

In the day it’s the scent of romance
At night it’s the shining of true love
And there lies the world that no one knows of
Weaving the twilight
Slowly opening up her arms
Stopping time with her sweet kiss
Lives the royal princess

Offer your prayers to Mercury
Because someday it will allow you to meet

Around and around
Changing into sweet lace
Ringing the bell of the blue star

All by herself
For the man she'd love so dearly
She’s waiting, waiting, and waiting
Mercury Princess...